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Your complete digital resources for keeping up with
everything that's going on this month at EPICentre
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Summer Wrap-Up, by Dr. Francine Schlosser
It has been a great summer at EPICentre! We have expanded once again with new programs, such as the EPIC Founders and our cross-campus EPIC Faculty Fellows Program! We've been strengthening and redesigning other programming, including venture mentoring and interdisciplinary entrepreneurial activities. Our upcoming events scheduled for the fall are geared to scientists, engineers and creative artists (see our events page).
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EPICentre Annual Report
We are proud to publish EPICentre's first annual report!
This report provides a summary on what EPICentre has been up to and the impact it has made on entrepreneurial communities on and off campus between January 2014 and April 2015.
For example, EPICentre has hosted a total of 62 programs in which over 3,000 students took part during that period. Click
HERE
to view/download the full annual report.
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EPIC Founders Demo Day
On July 31, 2015, seven start-ups participating in EPICentre's EPIC Founders Program pitched their ideas and demonstrated their prototypes at the EPIC Founders Demo Day to the community. The 12 founders making up these start-ups consisted of students and recent graduates from the University of Windsor and St. Clair College, and made up the first cohort of
EPICentre's EPIC Founders Program.
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EPIC Cross-Border Grant Opportunity
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Faculty Fellow Corner: Professor Myra Tawfik
Intellectual property rights are the drivers of the knowledge economy. As a result, international and domestic IP laws play an important role in ensuring global innovative capacity. However, IP laws on their own do not translate into positive economic outcomes. In fact, in spite of having some of the most sophisticated and modern IP laws in the world, Canada fares poorly in a number of reports on global innovation competitiveness, especially in its inability to effectively commercialize IP.
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Cross-Border Logistics Lunch 'N Learn with Laurie Tannous
On August 20th, EPICentre hosted Institute for Border Logistics and Security CEO Laurie Tannous to inform our members and the Windsor community on issues related to cross-border business. The sold-out event was a tremendous success, and will be a recurring event at EPICentre. READ MORE
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EPIC Mentorship Program - Fall 2015
EPICentre offers students and recent graduates the help of a mentor, to work on their business over the course of four months. This program, one of many offered at EPICentre, is for entrepreneurs in the idea-phase of their start-ups. Successful candidates will work toward idea validation and have the chance to earn a $1,000 grant to help kick-start their business.
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Students - Do You Want to Help with an EPICentre Activity?
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Introducing: New EPICentre Venture Start Membership
Since the introduction of our incubation program in January 2015, we have become aware of the need to support ventures who are in earlier stages, such as the ideation or discovery stages; or those who do not need access to physical office space. Therefore, we are proud to introduce three new Venture Start Memberships: READ MORE
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Financial Markets Lab @ Odette School of Business
This summer, the Enterprise Consulting Team partnered with the Financial Markets Lab at the Odette School of Business in order to provide better secondary research for the team's clients. The Financial Markets Lab is equipped with state of the art Bloomberg software as well as other numerous resources designed to enhance the research capabilities of undergraduate students. READ MORE
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BioTechnology Innovations Solutions Competition
UWindsor's first Bio Innovative Solutions (BIS) competition is inviting university and college students to submit problem solving proposals related to biotechnology - the field studying the use of living organisms in product development. The competition will take place October 3, 2015 during the Biotechnology Entrepreneurship Symposium held at the University of Windsor, hosted by the Masters of Medical Biotechnology Program (MMB), Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and the support of EPICentre. READ MORE
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Incubator Member Profile - DTP Tech
DTP Tech Solutions is a both product and services business. Services and products offered: digital receipts (replacing paper), automated bookkeeping (transaction recording from receipts), purchase tracking (organize purchases by employee or project), storage of receipts (remain compliant with government requirements), custom mobile advertising for retailers, brands mobile application and user interface access cards and hardware (short range communication devices and mediums for point-to-point communication). READ MORE
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